Declan Kiberd is the author of Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, which was awarded the Irish Times Literature Prize and is one of the most influential works on Irish culture published in recent years. His Irish Classics, published in 2000, was shortlisted for the Irish Times Prize.
His latest book, Ulysses and Us, removes the great novel from the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Joyce industry and restores it to its shocking, democratic origins. He is Professor of Anglo-Irish Literature at University College, Dublin.
Declan Kiberd